Sat May 4 | 7 - 9 pm Strathcona County Community Centre Celebrate the culmination of National Poetry Month with a fabulous evening of poetry, featuring Jenna Butler and Naomi McIlwraith. Hosted by our Writer in Residence Mary Pinkoski, the evening will also include an open mic session for those who are interested in sharing their own works.
Mary Pinkoski
Jenna Butler
Tickets are $5. Please reserve your seat by registering online at sclibrary.ca or by calling 780.410.8600. Pay for your tickets at the door.
Naomi McIlwraith
Strathcona County
LIBRARY 401 Festival Lane
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Sherwood Park
780-410-8600
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GARDENS LOVE POETS
Friday April 26, 2019 9 am - 12 pm In partnership with the Edmonton Poetry Festival. Advance registration required.
Home and Away: Writing Our Lands A Workshop with Jenna Butler Join us in the Ozawa Pavilion Tea House, overlooking the Japanese Garden, for a day of poetry. Critically acclaimed poet and author Jenna Butler will lead participants through a day of walking, sharing, writing and reflecting the land and space we inhabit.
LOCATED IN PARKLAND COUNTY, 5 KM NORTH OF DEVON HWY 60 780-492-3069 | botanicgarden.ualberta.ca
Formerly the Devonian Botanic Garden
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Fighting Normal
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1:00 PM-3:00 PM, Admission by donation Integer posuere rutrum condimentum. Donec vulputate aliquet mauris, et (proceeds donated to local mental consequat justo cursus vitae. Praesent tincidunt pulvinar elit at aliquet. Poetry Central health organization) Mauris dolor erat, porttitor ut placerat non, a lacus. Integer aliquam 11:30tempor AM – 1:30 PM, FREE Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Ave at erat vel dictum. Phasellus porttitor tincidunt lacinia. Sed eget sem Edmonton City Hall A dynamic presentation by four Edmonfermentum, cursus metus sit amet, sodales velit. Donec arcu, for a Poetry Central is tellus your chance ton poets whose lives have been impactlunch-time poetry meet-up in the ed by mental illness. downtown! Watch some of Edmonton’s emerging and established, page The Indigenous MOTS DE CHEZ Poets NOUS Society and stage poets, have a short-order 4:00 PM to 6:00 dolor PM, $10-$15 sliding scale Lorem ipsum sit amet, consectetur adipiscing aliquet conpoem writtenelit. forUt you on the spot, and The Aviary, 9314 111 Ave NW, Edmonton sectetur aliquam. Aliquam in ex ac turpis molestie cursus. Vestibulum pick up festival information or cursus a free As a collective of word warriors, The Inmassa ut nisl condimentum sagittis. Interdum malesuada fames ac ante poetry et book. digenous Poets Society uses narrative to ipsumidentity primis and in faucibus. Suspendisse non. reclaim create community.
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12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, FREE CBC Centre Stage, City Centre Mall The Edmonton Poetry Festival is happy Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut aliquet conthe Stroll of Poets tomolestie showcase four Edmonton writers, sectetur aliquam. Aliquam in ex ac turpis cursus. Vestibulum cursus 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, FREE highlighting Edmonton’s bestac new books massa ut 9314 nisl condimentum sagittis. Interdum et malesuada fames ante The Aviary, 111 Ave NW, Edmonton to hit the shelves. Sharing the spotlight ipsum primis Back, in faucibus. Suspendisse It’s the Blinks! just like that. The non. are: Claire Kelly, Kelly Shepherd, Adriana biggest stage for the smallest set Oniță, and Chelsea Dingman of half-minute poetry. You’ve got 30 seconds or your act is cut! Sign up online to read!
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AFTERNOON
MORNING
MON, apr. 22 TUES, apr. 23 WED, apr. 24 THU, ap 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Poetry and Stillness Millwoods Community Church
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Fighting Normal Audreys Books
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM YouTube! On the Other Hand The Matrix
10:00 AM Editing on E Masterclas Peter Midg The Matrix
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Poetry Central City Hall
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Poetry Central City Hall
11:30 AM Poetry Cen City Hall
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Local Books 1 CBC Centre Stage
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Practicing Home (Brown Bag Lunch) U of A Rutherford South
12:00 PM Local Book CBC Centr
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Panel: Digital Tools for Poets The Matrix
4:00 PM Literary Co U of A Facu
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4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Indigenous Poets Society The Aviary 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Blinks The Aviary
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM RE:Home CKUA
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Vintage Poetry SEESA Community Centre
6:00 PM Glass Buff Audreys Bo
9:00 - 10:00 PM Drone and Words The Sewing Machine Factory
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM BIP Slam Finals ft. Cobra Collins Art Gallery of Alberta
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM pê-kîwêhtatân itwêwin Theatre Lab Grant MacEwan
8:00 PM - 1 LandScape MacEwan A
8:00 PM - 1 French Tw Cafe Bicyle
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pr. 25 FRI, apr. 26
SAT, apr. 27
12:00 PM Eggshells: ss gley x
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Music in Poetry Workshop with Arlene Pare The Matrix
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Home and Away: Writing Our Lands Jenna Butler U of A Botanic Gardens
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Café Readings 1 Three Bananas
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- 1:00 PM ks 2 re Stage
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM TravelLog CBC Centre Stage
6:00 PM ocktails ulty Club
8:00 PM falo ooks
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Café Readings 2 Audreys Books
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM HomeBody The Matrix 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM The Story of Home Arlene Pare The Matrix
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Wine and Wild Women Wordsmiths The Matrix
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Café Readings 3 Nook Café
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Alive! & Open The Matrix
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM River City Lecture with Canisia Lubrin The Matrix
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Translating Home CKUA
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM HomeFront The Matrix
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Poetry Central
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM, FREE Edmonton City Hall Poetry Central is your chance for a
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SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Music in Poetry with Arleen Paré
Presented in partnership with the Canadian Authors Association 10 AM – 2 PM, $40 for members of the Poetry Festival, the CAA, and the WGA
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$70 for non-members HomeFront, The Saturday The Matrix 10640 100 Ave NW MOTS DEHotel, CHEZ NOUS Poetry Party. Arleen willdolor explore rhyme,consectetur rhythm 8:30 PM – 11 elit. PM, Ut $15aliquet members, LoremParé ipsum sit amet, adipiscing conand repetition in poetry through non-members, Volunteers cursus Free sectetur aliquam. Aliquam in exthis ac turpis$20 molestie cursus. Vestibulum extended workshop, presented in part The Matrix Hotel, 10640 100 Ave NW massa ut nisl condimentum sagittis. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante with the Canadian Authors Association. Thelacus Edmonton Festival is ipsum primis in faucibus. Suspendisse non sagittisPoetry urna aliquam throwing its annual poetry party with interdum nec quis sem. Ut felis elit, sagittis ut lacinia id, pretium ut purus. Event: Homebody internationally acclaimed poets and Nulla facilisi. Fusce fermentum placerat local pretium. Praesent facilisis, libero a 2 PM – 4 PM, $5 for members, superstars Buddy Wakefield, bibendum dapibus, ante felis tempus sem, in tincidunt erat nisl sed dui. Ut $10 for non-members Lady Vanessa, Nasra Adem, Ahmed malesuada magna sit amet feugiat Vivamus sed at eros laoreet The Matrix Hotel, 10640 100 Ave NW ornare. Knowmadic, andtellus musician Selassie Homebody invites prominent queer auctor a nec diam. Aenean urna nulla, imperdiet vitae laoreet in, venenatis Drah to celebrate poetry at its most poets from across showvivid form. vel ipsum. Duis in Canada mi ligula.toMaecenas velit ligula, vulputate sit amet egestas case their work in an exploration id, interdum eget neque. Donec of vulputate sed turpis sit amet ullamcorper. the wayquis home, and place in it, Nunc urna ut their metus scelerisque facilisis. SUNDAY, APRIL 28 manifests in themselves. Listen in on Arleen Paré, Natalie Wee, Matthew Integer posuere rutrum condimentum. Donec vulputate aliquet mauris, et The Café Readings Stepanic, and Jason Purcell. consequat justo cursus vitae. Praesent tincidunt pulvinar at aliquet. 1:30 PM -4:30 PM, elit FREE Audreys Books 10702 Jasper Avenue Mauris dolor erat, porttitor ut placerat non, tempor a lacus. Integer aliquam Alive! & Open Three Bananas 9918 sem 102 Ave vel dictum. lacinia. Café Sed eget 4 at PMerat – 6:30 PM, $20Phasellus Members,porttitor tincidunt The Nook Café 10153 97arcu, St NW fermentum, cursus metus sit amet, sodales velit. Donec tellus $25 Non Members Wind down festival week with our traThe Matrix Hotel, 10640 100 Ave NW ditional chorus of local voices. You’ve Alive! Is a heavy-hitting, multidiscigot all the choice in the world as our plinary poetry experience curated and café readings mark the festival’s last MOTS DE CHEZ NOUS performed by nationally-celebrated day. Dozens elit. of poets will share Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing Ut aliquet con-brief poet Brandon Wint. Following Alive! readings ofcursus. their work in cafes cursus around sectetur aliquam. Aliquam in ex ac turpis molestie Vestibulum will be award-winning poet Titilope downtown. It’s for young and old, Sonuga’s internationally-acclaimed massa ut nisl condimentum sagittis. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante newbies and pros—sign up online. poetry musical showcase, Open. ipsumand primis in faucibus. Suspendisse non.
Translating Home The Alongside: Poetry & The Hosts: Adriana Oniță and Luciana P R E S E N T Sof Home Architecture Erregue-Sacchi Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut aliquet conwith Canisia Lubrin 6 PM – 8 PM, Pay what you can
River Cityaliquam. LectureAliquam Sponsored by turpisCopies sectetur in ex ac molestie cursus. Vestibulum of The Polyglot on sale cursus Alice Major massa ut nisl condimentum sagittis. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante CKUA Space, 9804 Jasper Avenue 7 ipsum PM – 8primis PM, $5 inmembers, faucibus. Suspendisse non. Ten poets from The Polyglot’s latest $10 nonmembers issues, Lunch Box and Unfaithful, exThe Matrix Hotel, 10640 100 Ave NW plore multilayered meanings of home Poetry translates experience into through poems in Arabic, Irish, Italian, writing that often helps us navigate Nêhiyawêwin, Portuguese, Romanian, compromised categories of belonging Somali, Spanish, and Tagalog. and home. Join Canisia Lubrin as she reflects on this process and shares her insightful perspective with us.
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